Tag: IRB

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April 24, 2009

As if the Coast IRB sting couldn’t get more crazy, the company itself has decided to close up shop on the more than 300 clinical trials it was reviewing, according to an AP story, and transfer them to another company.…

April 19, 2009

Who knew that GAO was so crafty? Evidently not Coast IRB, for one. Well, maybe it’s not quite SO crafty, but GAO was able to get the IRB to fall for a fake clinical trial that showed that the review board for hire was asleep at the wheel when it came time to review the phony study.…

March 7, 2013 12:19 pm

The vital role ESCROs have played in recent years can now be taken over by IRBs and IACUCs—both of which have existed at universities and research institutions for decades. Those two review bodies would only have to expand their remits slightly to cover hESC-specific considerations.

June 20, 2012 11:57 am

Four years after developing consensus recommendations to address responsibilities of researchers and institutional review boards (IRBs) when investigators discover IFs of potential health or reproductive importance to research participants, a group of researchers have joined on a follow-up project. The latest consensus paper, published earlier this year in Genetics in Medicine, built on the prior study by considering how to identify and manage IRRs and IFs in large-scale research involving biobanks.